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Sept. 11, 2018, 8 p.m.

THE EDGE

Bill Maher devoted most of his show's “New Rules” segment Friday to persuading Al Franken to get back into politics. But a spokesman says the former senator will do “no press or public appearances for the foreseeable future.” Not that he won’t be out in public: Franken was with his grandson at the Badlands playspace in Rockville, Maryland this weekend, chatting politics with several other patrons.

Al Franken
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QUOTEMEISTER

“Today, I'd really like to send you a sticker.”—Subject line of an email from Hillary Clinton’s Onward Together Committee.

“Forget what you read about NAFTA negotiations and Twitter wars. That's not who we are.”—U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Knight Craft, during a visit to the Canadian city of Gander.

“We are planning for devastation.”—FEMA Associate Administrator Jeff Byard, on the agency’s plans for Hurricane Florence, per Bloomberg.

ON DECK FOR SEPT. 12

10:30 a.m. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer speaks to the End Citizens United Action Fund.